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  2. Kugatachi - Wikipedia

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    Kugatachi (盟神探湯) is a kind of trial by ordeal that was conducted in ancient Japan. [1] It was done through exposure to boiling water and it is believed that innocent people would not be scalded and guilty people would be scalded due to divine intervention by kami .

  3. Bisha'a - Wikipedia

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    Bisha'a or Bisha (Arabic: بِشْعَة; ordeal by fire, trial by fire or fire test) is a ritual practiced by some Muslim Bedouin tribes of the Judean, Negev and Sinai deserts for the purpose of lie detection. It is also practiced, and is said to have originated among, some Bedouin tribes of Saudi Arabia.

  4. Trial by ordeal - Wikipedia

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    Trial by ordeal was an ancient judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused (called a "proband" [1]) was determined by subjecting them to a painful, or at least an unpleasant, usually dangerous experience.

  5. Germanic law - Wikipedia

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    Unlike for the trial by combat, scholars debate whether the trials by fire and water were inspired by Christianity or derive from pre-Christian Germanic tradition. [ 131 ] [ 64 ] Robert Bartlett argues for a Frankish origin of the practice of trial by fire and water, with Frankish influence spreading it around Europe.

  6. The New Order (album) - Wikipedia

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    The New Order was the album that broke Testament into the thrash metal mainstream, back by its only single "Trial by Fire" which featured a music video, as did the cover of Aerosmith's "Nobody's Fault". [citation needed] This success would only grow with their next album Practice What You Preach.

  7. Cruentation - Wikipedia

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    Other forms of trial by ordeal vanished during the centuries before cruentation's demise, precisely because they (hubristically) effected divine judgement. [ 10 ] Cruentative procedures became increasingly stringent, [ 11 ] and in 1545, Antonius Blancus was the first to question the reliability of cruentation as a practice. [ 12 ]

  8. Trial by fire - Wikipedia

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    Trial by Fire (Journey album), or the title song, 1996; Trial by Fire (Yelawolf album), or the title song, 2017; Trial by Fire: Live in Leningrad, by Yngwie J. Malmsteen, 1989; Trial by Fire, by the Brandos, unreleased (1990) Trial by Fire: Greatest and Latest, by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, 1996

  9. Agni Pareeksha - Wikipedia

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    ' trial by fire ') may refer to: Agni Pariksha, a trial by fire described in the Hinduism, notably in the Sanskrit epic Ramayana; Agni Pareeksha, an Indian Telugu-language film; Agni Pariksha, an Indian Bengali-language film, starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen; Agni Pareeksha, an Indian Malayalam-language film